Muñoz Corcuera, AlfonsoMcLaughlin, Jeff2026-04-232026-04-232017Muñoz-Corcuera, A. (2017). “Living in a Fictional World: Reading and Identification in Lost Girls”. In McLaughlin, J. (ed.), Graphic Novels as Philosophy (pp. 189-209). University Press of Mississippi.9781496813312978149681327510.14325/mississippi/9781496813275.003.0010https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/134987Published: 18 August 2017.This chapter studies Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls and how it deals with another topic that is being discussed in contemporary aesthetics: identification with fictional characters. However, most philosophers hold that people cannot identify with fictional characters. When someone says that they identify with a certain fictional character, they are just wrong, or, at best, using the term in a metaphorical sense. The chapter shows how, because a given situation always has different aspects, identification happens with regard to different aspects too. It puts forward a concept called “egocentric identification,” which refers to the identifying of oneself with a fictional character, caring about them in the same way someone cares about themselves.engbook parthttps://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496813275.003.0010https://academic.oup.com/mississippi-scholarship-online/book/22494/chapter-abstract/182801648?redirectedFrom=fulltexthttps://produccioncientifica.ucm.es/documentos/640cb3904531f424f87dcedcrestricted access7.01316.614.4741.5Lost GirlsAlan MooreMelinda GebbieIdentificationEgocentric identificationFictional charactersContemporary aestheticsFilosofía de la menteEstética (Filosofía)Crítica textual7203.03 Metafísica, Ontología6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias